Dissociation

Dissociation is a mental process that causes a lack of connection in aperson’s thoughts, memory and sense of identity. Dissociation falls on a continuum of severity.

Mild dissociation would be like daydreaming, getting “lost” in a book, or when you are driving down a familiar stretch of road and realize that you do not remember the lastseveral miles. A severe and more chronic form of dissociation is seen inthe disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), once called MultiplePersonality Disorder (MPD), and other Dissociative Disorders.

Other dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia, such as “psychogenic amnesia” (the inability to recall personally significant memories) or “psychogenic fugue” (memory loss characteristic of amnesia, loss of one’s identity, and fleeing from one’s home environment). You also may experience derealization (the sense of the world not being real), depersonalization (the sense of being detached from, or “not in” one’s body), or identity confusion (a sense of confusion about who a person is).

Whatever you may be experiencing in regards to these very confusing, anxiety provoking, and stressful reactions, I can help you develop techniques and coping skills

that can help you not feel so lost and alone.

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